7 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 9

The Yellow Satchel. By Fred Whishaw. (Routledge and Sons.) —The

author of The Yellow Satchel ingeniously contrives to get into his tale two stories of treasure-hunting,—the owner of the satchel hunts, and the lad to whom he leaves it hunts. And both searches are conducted with so much villainy as amply to justify the remark, true enough, but hardly to be expected on the occasion, that treasure-seeking brings out what is worst in a man's character. It is true that the honest people come off best in the end; but the story of how they managed it is sufficiently grue- some. Of course, it is told with the spirit that we expect from Mr. Whishaw.